NP, TD 3/6/1861

From the New Orleans True Delta
 
March 6, 1861
 
Texas Intelligence
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Air Line Railroad
   The State Gazette says:
   The Air Line railroad company, through their able President, Col. John B. Banks, have succeeded in securing provisions to sustain the present negro force of eighty efficient hands for a year from the present date. This will enable the company to grade twelve and a half miles of the road by the 1st of January 1862, and the recent extension of the charter by the legislature, giving the Company until 30th December 1863, to complete the first section of twenty-five miles, can leave no doubt in the minds of the friends of this great enterprise, of its success. The contractors, Messrs. Catterton & Williams, are pushing forward the work, under the terms of their contract, towards the first station this side of Brenham, and is, we understand, of a character excelling any "earthwork" yet made in the state.

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